[PVRCNC] noise

[AA4NC@aol.com]

There you go Tom - Do these guys know their noise finding or what? By the time you report it, they have already found it and called Gary Sauls! What great service!

I've found that it's when noise gets severe like this, it's actually a blessing in disguise. It makes it a lot easier to find. Back in October, when K4MA had a miserable CQWW at my place due to a big case of line noise, we found it right away and were able to cure it quickly. Now I'm back to the puny weak intermittent noise sources that seem to be farther away and much harder to pinpoint.


In a message dated Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:52:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, N4CW writes:

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> In a message dated 01/21/2002 9:59:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, AA4NC@aol.com writes:
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> << N4CW has a small IC706 and a yagi and has helped me locate noise in the past.
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> Hey, Will! Bill (CIA) and I went out last Wednesday and spent a good part of the day tracking it down. With my X9 as the primary direction finder, the noise was due East. Well, we took the 2M beam and a little Yaesu hand-held receiver that Bill had, and drove around the neighborhood. We couldn't get an S-meter reading, but used our ears and the loudness of the noise to locate it. All indications had it within a quarter mile, but we couldn't find the "point source" before noon. After lunch, we put the 706 to work, got S-meter readings, and narrowed it down some more. Bill took his little receiver and walked pole to pole, but the power lines were re-radiating the noise, so Bill couldn't find it.
> So we approached the problem from my house, cut through the woods (due East) and came to an abandoned mobile home in the woods. It had its own power pole. Bill put his antenna up against the power meter on the pole and pinned the S-meter! It sure looked like the culprit...but he traced the overhead feedline back to a pole on Six Forks Rd (about 75 feet away), and pinned the needle there. Then he wiggled the (very loose) guy wires and made the noise intermittent. Good clue! So I called Gary Sauls that afternoon and reported the pole. The noise was still there during NAQP SSB this weekend, but I know Gary will have a crew come around soon.
> I've let Tom (N4TL) know what we found and that we had reported it.
> 73,
> Bert